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Cry Pretty Music Video

Farawayhills

Farawayhills

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A high ball glass would probably be a reference back to "Smoke Break".

"Sipping from a highball glass"
"Let the world fade away"

--that stanza would both fit Carrie's pose in that still, and also one the themes I think she's exploring specifically in the new song - that the artist cannot avoid her pent up emotions, once she breaks away from the exaggerated image her genre performance role often requires of her.
 
FanSince04

FanSince04

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Suellen said:
I think it’s her cell phone from the pictures that Donna posted.
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I get why you think that, but go look at the picture again while zooming in on it. Her hand is cupped around the glass. You can see the rounded bottom of the glass extend beyond her hand.
 
Smokyiiis

Smokyiiis

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So in that block of photos that Madkatt posted, the second picture on the top row. Is that a flask or a perfume bottle? Imagery.....
 
maddkat

maddkat

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^ me either

close up of the glass and you can see the beverage sloshing :)

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Farawayhills

Farawayhills

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FanSince04 said:
Wow! I really like your thorough run through of the video. Although, I haven’t picked up on the references between Miranda and Carrie’s videos. Would you mind pointing them out?
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The two most likely ones are the driverless car in "Vice" and the truck driving/driver's window look scenes in "Smoke Break"/"Automatic". Some have pointed to others which I find less convincing, but there have also been scenes where they use similar motifs in passing, such as the Joshua Tree. I think there may have been a little to-and-fro game between them since they collaborated on "Something Bad"

The sunglasses are a particularly telling motif. "Pink Sunglasses" was musically the most Mainstream song on TWOTW, but Miranda sings it as a light-hearted satire, and the underlying message would largely get lost, unless people listen to the lyrics closely. Carrie's use of the motif is visually more devastating, because it's used (about three times, I think) to express the momentary hiding in car scenes that act as a "bridge" between the artist's two worlds, before she finally has to let her emotions flood out.

I think Carrie is probably the only one who could so convincingly put this critique of the format's demands across - as she's so much at the centre of the format's characteristic approach, and so much identified with the stage glamour. I think many will come to see this video as a serious and significant commentary on how artists are required to act out other people's fantasy roles, almost regardless of their underlying feelings and pressures.
 
Suellen

Suellen

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Farawayhills said:
The two most likely ones are the driverless car in "Vice" and the truck driving/driver's window look scenes in "Smoke Break"/"Automatic". Some have pointed to others which I find less convincing, but there have also been scenes where they use similar motifs in passing, such as the Joshua Tree. I think there may have been a little to-and-fro game between them since they collaborated on "Something Bad"

The sunglasses are a particularly telling motif. "Pink Sunglasses" was musically the most Mainstream song on TWOTW, but Miranda sings it as a light-hearted satire, and the underlying message would largely get lost, unless people listen to the lyrics closely. Carrie's use of the motif is visually more devastating, because it's used (about three times, I think) to express the momentary hiding in car scenes that act as a "bridge" between the artist's two worlds, before she finally has to let her emotions flood out.

I think Carrie is probably the only one who could so convincingly put this critique of the format's demands across - as she's so much at the centre of the format's characteristic approach, and so much identified with the stage glamour. I think many will come to see this video as a serious and significant commentary on how artists are required to act out other people's fantasy roles, almost regardless of their underlying feelings and pressures.
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Great post, but for the driverless cars I have to go with Two Black Cadillac and Vice, but I might be reading your post wrong.
 
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ethelu

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I like how the sound of the shower goes into the sound of the crowd, at the beginning of the video.
 
maddkat

maddkat

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if anyone was wondering, from the Veo video

Director: Randee St. Nicholas
Producers: David Garcia, Carrie Underwood, Grant Jue
Composers: Carrie Underwood, Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna, Liz Rose
Editor: Steve Forner
 
Hil

Hil

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Kizmet311 said:
Everyone keeps saying she is holding a flask. Perhaps my eyes are deceiving me, but I swear I thought it was a highball glass?
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She is. LOL I thought I missed the flask and went back and looked at all the scenes.
 
Farawayhills

Farawayhills

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Grant Jue is listed alongside the song's co-producers - but he would only have been involved with the video. He's a veteran at that - he was involved with the Chicks' controversial video for "Not Ready To Make Nice", in 2006. He would be responsible for the budget, the locations, the scene lengths, and for co-ordinating the artistic work of the various specialists involved (director, editor, writers). As we know that Carrie herself is capable and interested in writing story boards, I would guess that he worked with her in sorting out which scenes would work. The director, though, would be more involved in determining the photography, general look and posing of each scene.
 
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DaisyTweets

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Ok I've watched the video a ton!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Now I'm trying to pick out the band members! Can anyone tell who the guitarist is who is in the left of the video(Carrie's right) and he's dancing around ALOT and has shorter hair??????? It doesn't appear to me that it's Jimmy! He's sure moving around alot!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I think I've gotten everyone else accounted for except for Mr. Dance alot!!!! Teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
 
oldyfan

oldyfan

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Farawayhills said:
The two most likely ones are the driverless car in "Vice" and the truck driving/driver's window look scenes in "Smoke Break"/"Automatic". Some have pointed to others which I find less convincing, but there have also been scenes where they use similar motifs in passing, such as the Joshua Tree. I think there may have been a little to-and-fro game between them since they collaborated on "Something Bad"

The sunglasses are a particularly telling motif. "Pink Sunglasses" was musically the most Mainstream song on TWOTW, but Miranda sings it as a light-hearted satire, and the underlying message would largely get lost, unless people listen to the lyrics closely. Carrie's use of the motif is visually more devastating, because it's used (about three times, I think) to express the momentary hiding in car scenes that act as a "bridge" between the artist's two worlds, before she finally has to let her emotions flood out.

I think Carrie is probably the only one who could so convincingly put this critique of the format's demands across - as she's so much at the centre of the format's characteristic approach, and so much identified with the stage glamour. I think many will come to see this video as a serious and significant commentary on how artists are required to act out other people's fantasy roles, almost regardless of their underlying feelings and pressures.
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Brilliant commentary.
 
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